I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
front bench
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
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Six boys from the front bench were selected.
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They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House.
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The Opposition front bench , and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.
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This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench , but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.
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Nigel Jones, who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government.
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Kinnock reshuffle brings back Clare Short and puts more women into traditional male jobs Boateng first black to join a front bench .
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Of the 20 parliamentary members at the Liberal Democrat leader's disposal, all but one will now sit on the front bench .
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It has the usual seating arrangement three seats across the front and bench seats along each side of the back.
labour
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I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench .
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The experiment, which had caused some worry, particularly on the Labour benches , was entirely successful.
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As I rose to answer there was a roar of laughter from the Labour benches .
long
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There was a long wooden bench under the window, littered with instruments and jars.
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The long benches were replaced by two and one reversible cushioned seats, with longitudinal seats in the corners.
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Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm, comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic.
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Diners share long benches and slurp huge bowls of noodle soup or stir-fried plates.
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There, women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches .
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In the workshop, overlooking the sea, there is a long ex-grocery bench that came from Ingrid's grandfather's shop.
piano
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Mavis said, sitting at the piano bench .
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There was an upright piano and a piano bench .
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Monk shares the piano bench with Horace Silver, a most extraordinary moment in jazz history.
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But she was advertising from the piano bench and specializing in private sessions to augment her income after her musical workday.
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The tea tray landed on the piano bench , and I set the empty Brown Betty pot teetering on the piano keys.
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We got five Little Flock hymnals out of the piano bench and picked out two songs.
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When she tires, she nods to her sister, who slides on to the piano bench next to her.
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Her sister plays until she can no more, and then another woman glides across the room and on to the piano bench .
wooden
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And as the camera glides, it passes a couple sitting on a single, simple wooden bench overlooking the garden.
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We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.
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The approach to the bar's terrace was guarded by two old women taking the sun on a wooden bench .
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In the meantime I enclose a selection of wooden bench designs.
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The sides are lined with narrow wooden benches .
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There was a long wooden bench under the window, littered with instruments and jars.
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Because the wooden benches were filled with sleeping soldiers returning from war.
■ NOUN
park
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So he walked to the park and sat on the park bench and let his thoughts pass through his head.
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And so, Janir, pronounced Ja-NEER: two syllables put together on a park bench on the day of his birth.
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In the space next to William on the park bench there is a Sunday newspaper, as yet unfolded.
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Old friends Sat on their park bench Like book ends.
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I just sat on the park bench and watched him dragging that potbelly around.
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Apart from that it's park benches and dark archways.
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Like what the crazy old lady on the park bench in front of the Regency said that day.
press
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The pecs respond fairly quickly regular training, especially the bench press .
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I caught sight of Bobby doing bench presses on a Universal machine near the far wall.
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There are two variations on the bench press - the incline bench press and the decline bench press.
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The incline bench press puts more emphasis on upper pec development and the decline bench press gives more low pec development.
seat
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The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke.
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Grunt Six and the other captain sat on the bench seat facing forward.
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I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
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Here are old buses with wooden bench seats , and farmers riding donkeys.
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It was wonderfully open inside, with wide bench seats and all the room in the world.
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The outboard-facing chart table is particularly well thought out with a bench seat for the navigator built into the engine box.
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There is a large bench seat in the rear which will accommodate two adults or three smaller people at a pinch.
stone
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I climb out and pick up the wood arrow, minus its red sucker, from beneath the stone bench .
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Penny sat on a stone bench in the middle of the cavern to rest.
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Behind a screen of scented orange-blossom was a little arbour with a stone bench , and she took refuge there.
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I sat down on a little stone bench across from the long gray building and waited for the time to pass.
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In 1967, my wife Ann made a drawing of Stenness, including a stone bench across two stubby, central columns.
■ VERB
lie
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There were the unfinished shoes for Emily Grenfell lying on the bench , the amethysts agleam against the softness of the leather.
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The thin, card-sized plate of the AE-35 unit lay on the bench under a powerful magnifying lens.
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When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her.
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One of the cameramen had picked the paper up at lunch, and left it lying on a bench .
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Adjustable bench Many exercises are performed either sitting or lying across a flat bench.
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The Malleus lay on the bench of every judge, on the desk of every magistrate.
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As they lie on the benches within arm's reach, the foliage compositions initially shock by their scale.
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It looks like the same sort of swarf that's lying under Orrie's bench .
sit
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The captain invited us brusquely to sit on a bench before the table and hurried out of a side door.
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We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.
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I sat down on the bench and leaned back against the wall.
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Penny sat on a stone bench in the middle of the cavern to rest.
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In a separate incident, a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench .
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They sat down on a bench under the orange-trees and he put his arm about her and kissed her.
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They ordered gins, and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table, while Karen admired the place.
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A boy of sixteen, Charles sat on the bench by the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a long wooden bench
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a team with a strong bench
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Across the hall from us is another bench , and it leads to that metal door.
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He pulled himself up, half-sitting on the bench that he had grabbed.
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In some areas they were able to further the cause of reform through their positions on the bench of justices.
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Ranulf sat slumped in the bench beside him, groaning and muttering at his master.
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The congregation shifted on their benches, moved their feet.
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We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.
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Who can contribute from the bench ?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anderson has been benched for three weeks until his injury has healed.